Last updated 26 July 2026. Questions go to help@trustmebro.com, and we read everything.
These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a binding agreement between you and Edward Ashdown, sole proprietor, trading as Trust Me Bro ("Trust Me Bro," "we," "us"). They govern the Trust Me Bro browser extension, the trustmebro website, our API, and every page we publish, including public receipt pages (together, the "Service"). By installing the extension, creating an account, or using the Service, you accept these Terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the Service.
You accept these Terms by installing the extension, creating an account, subscribing, or using any part of the Service. You must be at least 13 years old. If you are between 13 and 17, you may only use the Service with a parent or guardian's consent, and they accept these Terms on your behalf. If you use the Service on behalf of an organization, you confirm you have authority to bind it.
Trust Me Bro finds real academic sources for claims. The Service includes:
/r/… and /is-it-true/… showing a claim, our automated verdict, and the sources found ("Receipts")."Output" means anything the Service generates: verdicts, confidence scores, evidence summaries, quotes, citations, grades, and Receipts.
We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to install and use the extension for your own personal or internal use. The extension is distributed through the Chrome Web Store, and Google's own terms also apply to that distribution. All rights not expressly granted are reserved. This license ends if these Terms terminate or if we withdraw the extension.
You do not need an account to use the free extension; an anonymous device identifier meters your free checks. An account (email and password) is required to hold a Bro or Pro subscription, and to submit disputes, contributions, or re-crawl requests on Receipts. You are responsible for keeping your credentials secure and for activity under your account. Give us accurate information. We may suspend or terminate an account that violates these Terms. If you delete your account, your personal data is handled as the Privacy Policy describes. Note that Receipts already published are not removed when an account is deleted, because they were never linked to your account in the first place (see Section 08).
If we credit you for referrals ("dividends"), credits are applied to your Stripe customer balance against future bills. They are not cash, are not transferable or redeemable for money, and expire if your account closes. Self-referral, incentivized or fraudulent referrals, and automation are prohibited, and we may claw back credits tied to reversed or fraudulent subscriptions. We may change or end the program at any time; credits already applied to your balance are unaffected.
You agree not to:
We may throttle, suspend, or terminate access for violations.
What you keep. You own the text you submit: claims, essays, disputes, contributions. What you grant us. So the Service can work, and because public Receipts are how Trust Me Bro grows, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, perpetual license to host, store, reproduce, adapt, publicly display, index, and distribute your submissions and the Output generated from them, including on Receipt Pages, in the Trust Feed and Trust Wiki, and in search-engine indexes. This license survives account deletion for content that has been published; for everything else it ends when the content is deleted from our systems. The claim corpus. Claims, verdicts, evidence, and Receipts, stripped of any connection to the person who submitted them, form a corpus that we own and may license, including through an API and including to AI companies. We never license, sell, or share your identity, account, device identifier, or any record of who asked what. See the Privacy Policy for how we keep those separate. Receipts are anonymous. A Receipt carries the claim, the verdict, the confidence, and the sources. It never carries your identity or device ID, whether or not you press Share. Claims may appear on the Trust Feed and Trust Wiki on the same anonymous basis even if you never share them, so do not submit text you would not want published. Pressing Share does not attach you to the page; it gives you a permanent public link and makes you the person handing it around. Our editorial discretion. We may decline to publish, annotate, correct, or remove any Receipt at any time, for any reason, without notice. What a Receipt is. A Receipt is the output of an automated analysis of one specific claim against our published methodology and the academic sources retrieved at that time. It is not a statement of opinion by us about any publication, author, or person's general credibility, honesty, or character.
THE SERVICE USES AUTOMATED RETRIEVAL AND AI MODELS. OUTPUT IS PROVIDED FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY AND MAY CONTAIN ERRORS, OMISSIONS, OR AI-GENERATED INACCURACIES. OUTPUT IS NOT LEGAL, MEDICAL, FINANCIAL, JOURNALISTIC, OR ACADEMIC ADVICE, AND IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR READING THE UNDERLYING SOURCES. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR INDEPENDENTLY VERIFYING ANY OUTPUT BEFORE RELYING ON IT, INCLUDING BEFORE SUBMITTING IT IN ACADEMIC OR PROFESSIONAL WORK. ANY ACCURACY METRICS WE PUBLISH ARE HISTORICAL MEASUREMENTS OF PAST PERFORMANCE, NOT A GUARANTEE OF ANY RESULT. You remain responsible for complying with your institution's academic-integrity rules when using the Service on coursework.
Anyone, including an author, publisher, or person named in a claim, may dispute a Receipt using the dispute link on the page or by emailing us. We aim to review disputes against primary sources within 7 days. If we confirm an error, we will correct the Receipt and add a dated correction note rather than silently editing it; we may also unpublish it. Disputes about copyright specifically follow Section 11 instead.
We own the Service: the software, design, brand, and site, excluding your submissions and third-party materials. Paper titles, author names, abstracts, and excerpts quoted on Receipts belong to their respective owners and are used for identification, citation, and commentary. If you believe content on the Service infringes your copyright, send a notice to our designated agent at `[DMCA agent email, to be filled after registration with the US Copyright Office]` including: (1) identification of the copyrighted work; (2) the URL of the allegedly infringing material; (3) your contact information; (4) a statement of good-faith belief that the use is unauthorized; (5) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the notice is accurate and you are authorized to act; and (6) your physical or electronic signature. We will remove or disable access to material in response to valid notices, notify the affected user where possible, and accept counter-notices under 17 U.S.C. §512(g). We terminate repeat infringers.
Receipts link to and quote third-party sources retrieved from academic databases. We do not control those sources and do not endorse them beyond the specific automated check performed. Third-party services we rely on, including Google's Gemini API, academic databases, Stripe, and our hosting providers, have their own terms for their layers of the Service.
THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR SECURE, THAT ANY OUTPUT WILL BE ACCURATE OR COMPLETE, OR THAT ANY THIRD-PARTY DATABASE OR MODEL WE RELY ON WILL REMAIN AVAILABLE. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW CERTAIN WARRANTY EXCLUSIONS, SO PARTS OF THIS SECTION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, DATA, OR GOODWILL, ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS IN ANY 12-MONTH PERIOD IS CAPPED AT THE GREATER OF (A) THE FEES YOU PAID US IN THE 3 MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM AND (B) US $50. NOTHING IN THESE TERMS EXCLUDES LIABILITY THAT CANNOT BE EXCLUDED BY LAW, INCLUDING FOR GROSS NEGLIGENCE, WILLFUL MISCONDUCT, OR NON-WAIVABLE CONSUMER RIGHTS.
You will indemnify and hold us harmless from claims, damages, and reasonable costs (including legal fees) arising from your submissions, your use of the Service in violation of these Terms, or your violation of law or third-party rights.
For users in the United States: any dispute that cannot be resolved informally will be settled by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, before a single arbitrator. YOU AND WE EACH WAIVE THE RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL AND TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION OR CLASS ARBITRATION. Either party may instead bring an individual claim in small-claims court, or seek injunctive relief in court for intellectual-property infringement or misuse of the Service. **For consumers in the European Union, United Kingdom, and other jurisdictions where mandatory law overrides the above:** nothing in this section deprives you of the protection of the mandatory consumer-protection rules and courts of your country of residence. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, USA, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Before filing any formal dispute, email us first. Most issues can be sorted directly.